Sentences with phrase «of a cliffhanger»

The first episode, which tries to propel the story by vaulting the viewer back and forth between Texas, Syria and Indonesia (call it the «Game of Thrones» effect), ends with a bit of a cliffhanger in Indonesia, when Ford, after viewing massive illegal deforestation in a supposedly protected national park, intones: «This is unbelievable... I can't wait to see the Minister of Forestry, I can't wait.»
Sucker Punch ended the game with one hell of a cliffhanger ending that had many a gamer, including myself, picking their jaw up off the floor.
In One Thousand and One Nights, the storyteller Scheherazade escapes execution dawn after dawn by telling her misogynist husband a nightly series of cliffhangers — each one prompting him to delay her death by one more day so he can find out how the tale unfolds.
But those players also knew the game had one hell of a cliffhanger ending and made mention of a sequel, known as The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky: Second Chapter.
Death Cure starts with a slam - bang train robbery before it segues into a number of cliffhangers in which the «cliffs» are urban canyons of glass and steel.
Hah, yes, because I'm taking a break to write the sequel to Encrypted next, I didn't want to leave EE5 with too much of a cliffhanger (though I was a little tempted — I almost didn't write that epilogue!).
I really enjoy the possibility of a cliffhanger episode.
Virtually no problems affected the excellent audio of Cliffhanger.
The last volume ended with one heck of a cliffhanger — clones are popping up all over the place and now they're being pitted against each other in a war that few saw coming like this.
But now ALL the ballots are paper, and the Democrats (who are the underdogs in most of the cliffhanger Senate races) are starting to question whether all the votes were counted on Election Day — and that's BEFORE we even broach the question of absentees et al..
Open Loops in TV shows are the equivalent of that cliffhanger that keeps you up at night, consuming your mind with thinking about what's going to happen the next week, or that story line that was never quite explained.
Here's the beauty of a miniseries where each episode is the length of a real movie: It's like having an abundance of cliffhangers leading into sequels that are just as good as the first.
Though France is home to Western Europe's largest Muslim population, the question of whether someone could be both has surfaced here recently, ahead of a cliffhanger presidential election on Sunday.
As a communication and dramatic arts major at Coastal Carolina, he understands the art of the well - placed teaser, the tension of a cliffhanger.
That Times article ended with something of a cliffhanger about the Mets» ability to re-sign Cespedes.
Lazio, who performed well on primary day in his native Long Island and Westchester, where both he and Wilson now live, insisted the GOP candidates in two of the cliffhanger state Senate races (Oppenheimer - Cohen and Johnson - Martins) would have been helped by his candidacy.
The victory, after weeks of cliffhanger budget negotiations and literally hundreds of protest actions by concerned parents and educators, was sweet indeed for teachers who can now close up their classrooms with the knowledge that they'll see their students again in September.
Mr. Foley withstood a credible challenge by state Sen. John McKinney of Fairfield and will now face incumbent Gov. Dannel P. Malloy in the November election, which will be a rematch of the cliffhanger won by Mr. Malloy in 2010 by 6,400 votes.
He can't help himself from following that shot with a deeply curious coda, which uses the movie narrative logic of cliffhangers and sequels to position The Post as prequel to All the President's Men.
Sadly, Grubbins On Ice would stand as Costume Quest's sole expansion, and the sequel, Costume Quest 2, sort of washes its hands of that cliffhanger and goes back to a Hallowe'en focus.
The second half of «Tomb Raider» leaves its open - air action sequences behind, some good (the Hong Kong harbor chase), some digitally ridiculous (Lara's triple Axel of a cliffhanger above a waterfall).
Yes, Avengers: Infinity War ended with the mother of all cliffhangers, but the twisted timelines for upcoming movies like Spider - Man: Homecoming 2 prove that the circumstances created by the finale won't last.
The acclaimed second season of «Better Call Saul» ended with a pair of cliffhangers: determined to prevent his brother from practicing law, Chuck staged an elaborate con, secretly recording Jimmy's confession to a felony, and when Mike set his sights on sociopathic cartel boss Hector Salamanca, an ominous intervention stopped him from pulling the trigger, raising questions as to what other dangerous players may be in the game.
In place of cliffhangers and sudden betrayals, John Carter offers political blather and xeno - babble — come to think of it, all that's missing is a senate debate and a pod race.
He hasn't stopped working, but the glory days of Cliffhanger and Die Hard 2 must seem a distant memory now.
The featurette was created around the time of Cliffhanger's release, which is why Stallone appears in Demolition Man garb for his narration shots.
There's the delight of the cliffhanger, but there's also the arguably even deeper delight of the time between episodes, anticipating and speculating about what will happen next.
Moreover, there is a concern that writers may include lots of cliffhangers, epilogues and anything else that might keep readers reading for a little bit longer.
I know that's the nature of the cliffhanger and all, but I can't help but want more out of Viz's release schedule.
It's fair to say that «The Promised Neverland» has been a roller coaster of cliffhangers and dramatic revelations since chapter one.
It should be no surprise that money will be the only factor determining the outcome of that cliffhanger.
Given the amount of cliffhangers I wouldn't be surprised to see a sequel.
The Infernal City concluded with what was the very definition of a cliffhanger ending, leaving it well and truly open for a sequel.
The story mode is eminently brief and unravels precisely nothing of narrative value, concluding with less of a cliffhanger and more of the kind of twist you'd find in halfhearted Creepypasta.
This is no slapdash side - scroller in the vein of Cliffhanger or Total Recall.
Great sales, combined with the public outcry as a result of the cliffhanger ending, led to the inevitable sequel.
Stranger Things ended on a bit of a cliffhanger, with lots of lingering questions about just who was involved in what, where everyone ended up and even a few questions about who was alive and who wasn't.
Unfortunately, the ending is more or less just as much of a cliffhanger.
The Conjuring 2 belongs to Wilson and Farmiga as the sincere, loving, slightly square Warrens, with Wan tightening the screws for a rousing series of cliffhangers that should have audiences screaming.
After filming part one of a cliffhanger episode, which ends with Penny getting kidnapped, Bolt escapes to try to rescue her.
Sucker Punch ended the game with one hell of a cliffhanger ending that had many a gamer, including myself, picking their jaw up off the floor.
Virtually no problems affected the excellent DTS - HD MA 5.1 audio of Cliffhanger.
Neither full game nor free demo, Kojima's attempt to bridge the events of Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker and the upcoming Phantom Pain acts as both a FOX Engine showcase, a playable tutorial for Snake's massively overhauled gameplay and a shameless story teaser that sets up one heck of a cliffhanger.
As you'd expect from a movie that's the first half of a book, there isn't really an ending to the movie, and it doesn't naturally end on much of a cliffhanger either, so if you walk out of the theater feeling tepid, this will likely be one of the major reasons.
I was hoping I would like Ultraman, and I did enjoy the first volume, which ends on a bit of a cliffhanger, making the second volume a must have.
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